"To get the wrong end of the stick."
"Can't make head nor tail of it."
"To put it in a nutshell."
"To hear it on the grapevine."
"To be like talking to a brick wall."
"To talk at cross-purposes."
"To beat about the bush."
- To not understand someone.
- To hear something because the information has been passed from one person to another in a conversation.
- To not understand something.
- To fail to understand anything.
- To try to communicate with an unresponsive person.
- To give the main facts in a short, clear way.
- To delay talking about something.